Jyotika Virdi

The Cinematic ImagiNation

Indian Popular Films as Social History

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Produktbeschreibung

India produces more films than any other country and these works are consumed by non-Western cultures in Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and by Indian communities across the world. This text focuses on how such a dominant media configures the ""nation"" in post-Independence Hindi cinema.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 389g
• ISBN-13: 9780813531915
• ISBN-10: 0813531918
• Artikelnr.: 23914914

Autorenporträt

JYOTIKA VIRDI teaches communication/film/media studies at the University of Windsor, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Nation and its discontents. The nation, in theory
The creative ImagiNation
Theorizing national cinema
Nation and its embodiments
Pleasure and terror of the feminine The idealized woman. Fixing the figure of the woman
Woman, community, nation
The "social butterfly." Heroes and villains: narrating the nation. Masculinity
Heroes and villains
Sons and mothers Heroines, romance, and social history. Reading resistance
Contesting the Laxman Rekha
Film/star text: reading social change The sexed body. Filmic love
Victims to vigilantes
Rape and the rape threat
The sexed body and specular pleasure
Double-speak about the body
Unsettled scores Re-reading romance. Transgressions of "true love"
Reinstating "family values"
Romantic love and the culture of consumption
The end of the Nehruvian Era